Laundry appliance.



A. H. GRAY.

LAUNDRY APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 22, 1915.

Patented Feb; 1, L916.

THE. COLUMBIA ILANOGRAPH C0,, WASHINGTON, D. c.

ALBERT H. RAY, oE GRAND RAPIDS, mrcmenu LAUNDRY APr iANoE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IAIL'BERT H. GRAY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LaundryAppliances; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a laundry appliance especially adapted forusein placing paper bags over suits of clothes or the'like after they havebeen cleaned in a laundry.

It is the object and purpose of my'invention to provide a device of thischaracter which may be utilized for placing a paper bag over a suit.dress or the like, irrespective of the length thereof and in which thisoperation can be much more quickly and readily effected than heretofore.To this end I have provided the construction shown in the accompanyingdrawing, in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2 a side elevation; and Fig. 3 an endelevation of the device.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the severalviews of the drawing.

In the construction of the appliance there is provided a board 1 ofconsiderable length at each side of which thin upwardly projectingmembers 2 are attached, one end of the board, hereafter termed the frontend, being brought substantially to a point as indicated at 3 at whichthere is permanently secured a screw 1 having a closed eye positioned asand of the formation best shown in Fig. 2. This board is supported adistance above the floor by the inclined supports 5 and 6 which crosseach other, a pair of said supports being provided at each side andadjacent the rear end of the board and connected at their upper ends bycross members 7 which are attached to the underside of the board 1.

A plurality of shelves 8, 9, 10 and 11 progressively decreasing inlength are provided and located one above the other, being supported andconnected together by uprights 12 and 13, at each side of the shelves.The rear ends of each of the shelves, which are formed, preferably, ofspaced apart slats or the like, are connected by cross bars 14: whichrest againstthe; front upper edges of supports 6, the structureas' awhole being adapted to be secured to these supportsby means of hooks l5pivotally mounted on 'par'tsG and detachably connected with eyes 16 asshown.

A bail is secured at the front ends of the shelves having depending legs17 which are attached to the uprights 13, the upper ends of the legsbeing connected by an integral cross member 18 which lies length ininches from the front end of the board to this line. The-shelves 8, 9,10 and 11. in length are somewhat over 60, 50, 4:0 and 30 inchesrespectively, and on' these shelves paper bags of various lengths areplaced.

In use, after a suit of clothes has been cleaned and pressed and placedon a garment hanger, the suit is laid on the board 1 lying between thesides 2 and the hook of the garment hanger is passed through the eye ofthe member 4. If the lower end of the suit comes at about the lineindicated by 40 a bag is taken from shelf 10 and placed over the suit asit lies on the board, the bail with its upper cross member 18 serving toguide and hold the bag in proper position to easily pass it over thesuitand the board. The bag is drawn until the member 4: with the hook of thegarment hanger therein punches through the bottom of the bag after whichthe hook of the garment hanger is disengaged from the eye and the suitof clothes with its covering bag thereon taken from the device. Fordifferent lengths of suits bags from different shelves will be taken.For instance, a suit that is nearly inches in length will be covered bya bag taken from the upper shelf 8.

arious changes in form and proportion of parts and in material ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from my inventionwhich is defined in the appended claims.

I claim 1. In a device of the character described, a flat horizontalmember, means to support said member at one end thereof leaving theopposite end free to draw bags or the like opposite end free andunobstructed, and a device having means to engage and hold the hook of agarment hanger secured at the free end of the horizontal member.

3. In a device of the character described,

I a fiat horizontal. member, means to support said member at one endthereof leaving the opposite end free and unobstructed, a device havingmeans to engage andihold the hook on a garment hanger attached to thefree end of the horizontal member, a horizontal bar located a distancefrom said free end of the member and in substantially the samehorizontal plane, and means to support the bar in said position. i i

, 4. In a device of the character described, a flat horizontal member, asupport therefor at one end, a device having means for engaging with thehook of a garment hanger secured at the opposite and-free end of themember, a support below the horizontal member, and a bail secured tosaid support Copies of this patent may be obtained for having ahorizontal. portion positioned a distance from the free end of thehorizontal member and in substantially the same plane therewith.

5. In a device of the character described, a member, means to supportsaid member at one end thereof leaving the opposite end free andunobstructed, and a device having means to detachably engage and holdthe hook of a garment hanger secured at the free end of the member,whereby bags may be drawn over said member and garments on a garmenthanger held by said device and thereafter removed from the membertogether with the garment and hanger.

6. In a device of the character described, a fiat member located insubstantially horizontal position, means to support said member at oneend thereof leaving the opposite end free and unobstructed, and upwardlyprojecting members attached at each side edge of said member to providea place therebetween in which articles of Wear may be positioned andserve as means to guide bags over said articles, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I afiix my s1 gnature.

ALBERT H. GRAY;

five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington. D. C.

